Projects and applied work.
Work from the places where strategy, operating design, practical AI, and hands-on building meet. Each entry keeps enough context to show what changed, what I learned, and how the work became useful.
Dragy Dash: Making Dragy Pro Sensor Data Easier to Use
A quick iPhone and ESP32 project for getting Dragy Pro BLE telemetry out of a single-purpose timing workflow and into simpler live dashboards.
The 4x4 as a System: What My Ranger Raptor Has Taught Me About Capability
Notes from using, refining, and learning a vehicle-based adventure system over time. A reflection on tyres, power, recovery, winter camping, and why every improvement has a receipt somewhere else in the system.
Building a Framework That Actually Moves Orgs
Most transformation frameworks describe the destination. The useful ones move you, guide you, and measure the shift. A walk through the discipline of building a calibrated internal framework — comparative assessment, council validation, the 'why this approach' page, and why movement has to come before alignment, alignment before benchmarking.
Building AI Systems at Higher Abstractions
The thing we engineer is climbing. The principles aren't. A look at why the harness is becoming the right unit of work in AI, what travels across abstraction layers, and what it takes to call the practice engineering honestly.
High-Density Short-Depth NAS: Solving a Server Chassis with CAD and 3D Printing
A compact rackmount NAS build shaped by cost, depth, airflow, noise, vibration, power, cabling, and drive-density constraints - and a reminder that CAD plus a 3D printer turns awkward physical problems into solvable ones.